Find it hard to believe the "why" of an invasion is even relevant. I can see China invading the western seaboard of the US telling Americans hey no worries we do not "claim ownership". As if any living person in the US would give a flying fuck about such utterances.

Front lines are too diffuse for tactical nukes to have much of a strategic effect. Unless Russia plans on lobbing strategic nukes at major population centers which sure as heck is not the "same result as surrender" even nukes are unlikely to result in surrender and may well backfire.

I don't see the relevance WRT invasion claims.

"Nothing to lose" rhetoric is not credible. Relevant differentiation is lack of threat to state survival. In an alternate reality in which Oct 7th attacks sufficiently threatened the survival of Israel I have little doubt Gaza would be converted into a glass parking lot. There were voices in the government calling for it in this reality and of course daily voices calling for nuking Ukraine and the "west" from Russian state media.

You are the one gaslighting. The Ukrainian military invaded the Kursk region of Russia and held it for a year. This is common knowledge and an irrefutable fact. Their intentions don't change the fact a military invasion of a nuclear power took place.

Oh give it a rest Spirals. You are not merely opposed to war you actively support Russia and regurgitate every bit of false Russian propaganda there is while demonstrating guttural hatred of Ukraine like any good self respecting vatnik.

"Now, those women they sent away for safe keeping better learn to clean house and pole dance at speed, because daddy isn't coming home. He got blown up in a proxy war back home. Bad decisions to prolong wars have consequences (and so do foreign warmongers interfering, like you are advocating for). Ukrainian women are going to finish paying the price on strip club runway that Ukrainian men already have paid with their lives. "

"Fuck those beggars. They definitely provoked it with their shelling in Donbas and elsewhere after repeated warnings from Russia to stop."

"When Ukraine loses and capitulates to Russia they will never get back their lost territory. They probably shouldn't have been shelling Russians in Donbas and Luhansk and they'd never had the trouble with Russia in the first place."

"BTW, Ukraine is losing badly and this whole idiotic debate is about to end when we properly stop supporting this proxy war and war mongering BS"

"There was no 2014 coup? There was no shelling in Donbas before the war? There was no threat of joining NATO? Russia just invaded because they coveted Ukraine?"

Assuming Mojtaba is not a vegetable he lacks religious credentials, has no charisma and hereditary ascension cuts against a core tenant of the Islamic revolution. What having him in place makes bare to Iranians is the IRGC is running the country as a mafia state and he is its puppet.

More Iranians are enraged over the prospect of being abandoned as bombs stop falling. Iranians supporting attacks against the regime were well aware of the fact there would be collateral damage. There were never any safe options no matter what. On one hand you have unintentional mistakes and on the other deliberate regime massacres involving orders of magnitude more people coupled with omnipresent systematic terrorizing of the population.

Trump's rhetoric is certainly idiotic and highly counterproductive.

What is interesting is the degradation of Iranian terror networks throughout the region. Hezbollah's days in Lebanon appear to be numbered. PMFs facilities in Iraq are under attack. The Houthis know they won't be getting Iranian support any time soon and rather than exporting terror huge numbers of their proxies around the world are flooding the streets of Iran.

No better way to enhance a regimes legitimacy than a bunch of foreign paid mercenary boots on the ground at the behest of the regime.

We've seen a similar unraveling of Russian proxies due to their preoccupation with getting their asses kicked in Ukraine. The fall of Assad's Syria, loss of influence in Caucasus and Africa, abandonment of Transnistria.

North Koreans have been supplying weapons to the Russians for years. There is no need for any of this just to sell weapons or find out how weapon systems perform in real world conditions.

I find the scoring hard to believe. Perhaps it has been years since I've looked and things have changed.

Apple and Microsoft last I remember were overly enamored with solder and glue. Doesn't Apple have some kind of whitelist/hardware signature thing requiring specialized tools just to replace components? Lenovo stinkpads had been screws from what I remember major components were serviceable.

About a year ago I went looking at one of the Dell rugged laptops (dual hotswap batteries, customizable ports) ultimately ended up deciding against it once I found out you literally had to strip the entire machine down removing mainboards, heat sinks..etc just to access the sodimm slots to add/replace memory.

This is separate from secure boot. In Windows kernel drivers are required to be signed. The trust anchors from what I remember are hard coded into the operating system. You can't even add certs for drivers to the systems store.

This can only be bypassed by booting with driver signature enforcement disabled. Having users do that is not all that feasible.

Yes, of course.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine began in 2014 when it became clear Putler's puppet Yanukovych had lost his legitimacy. He then fled to Russia a couple days later. On Feb 24 2022 Putler began a "full scale" war against Ukraine. Ukraine would invade Kursk over two years after the full scale war around August of 2024 as part of its fight against Putler's war of conquest.

Making arguments that depend on what Trump says is a bad idea.

Ukraine invaded the Kursk region of Russia two years ago.

How? A pipeline through Iraq perhaps? Or Syria? There's already one through Saudi Arabia which the Saudi's are making the most of, but all it takes to put that out of commission is a single drone strike anywhere along its thousand-km length.

Operation Ajax is more conspiracy than reality. It was an inept propaganda campaign against a prime minister that turned out to be about as effective as the CIA's 600+ attempts to kill Castro.

The prime minister was already declining in popularity and was fired while attempting to instigate a coup to install himself as dictator. He ended up getting himself fired for his efforts and was then tried and jailed for 3 years. Somehow this morphed into the patently absurd popular notion the CIA had deposed a democratically elected leader and installed a US puppet dictator instead.

"A plebiscite more fantastic and farcical than any ever held under Hitler or Stalin is now being staged in Iran by Premier Mossadegh in an effort to make himself unchallenged dictator of the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/1953/0...

Don't trust.

This is a rather silly argument. Russia has nukes and not only was it invaded it is being bombed each and every day. Ditto for Israel.

The primary problem with humans is they are easily manipulated and have an unhealthy tolerance of tyranny and aggregation of power. The tribal shit is merely a means to an end.

If pacifists had their way the entire planet would be locked into a totalitarian dictatorship.

It also showed the IRGC what they need to do going forward: Forget the nukes, they've got the Straights of Hormuz to hold the world to ransom, all you need for that is a few conventional drones and sea mines that you can churn out by the thousand without triggering any sanctions. Plus they've had a dry-run of what else to target, and how, in the future. So they graciously give up their nuclear programme, which they no longer need, in exchange for concessions and lifting of sanctions.

Nope, they invented bullshit cover stories to mask what they actually did. Well, not really invented the concept but the bullshit level in this one is new. I like the use of quantum in there, that always gets people's brains to shut down and swallow whatever's being sold.